The deep-red areas are unwinnable anyway.
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Most read areas are pro-abortion.
You must fight for your values, promote your ideas. Pro-lifers are right-wing extremists who actually work for the enemy

Kansas: 64% support abortion 'legal in all or most cases'.
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Also, Trump's FIFA Peace Prize was a betrayal of everything that the FIFA Peace Prize stands for.

Yes, and there was no reason to treat her in an unfair way that might inspire some sympathy for her.

Manipulative idiots: they have managed to make me feel sympathy for a person who otherwise wouldn't deserve it.

Well, we have a point of disagreement. I can only assure you that I'm certainly not in the camp of not fighting for trans rights in the hope of short-term gains.
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It's the pro-lifers in red seats nonsense all over again.

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My same point. bsky.app/profile/rose...

I think the underlying debate is whether it's worth fighting for your values beyond what appears to be the immediate gain, because only that way you improve your ground and (perhaps also) people respect you over time.

Well, Bill Kristol would be a moderate Republican if they still existed.

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There are no moderate republicans anymore.

Abortion is more popular than DEMs everywhere!
By "compromising" on a winning issue, you show a lack of spine and principles. And won't gain any votes. Pro-lifers are right-wing zealots: they will never vote for a pro-lifer D over a pro-lifer R. But some R could vote for a D economic populist.

Gosh... Completely out of step with the zeitgeist.
No, except on formal occasions.
Can you imagine this Ossoff (my 2028 ideal nominee) in a suit and tie during a podcast or a rally? To make him look like a conformist establishment shill?

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